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So Now That We're All Saying What We're Thinking...
Over the years on this blog I have offered some commentary on Pope Francis and his bizarre, scandalous and increasingly diabolical pontificate. Of late, I have tried to keep it light, trying to offer some comic relief on the papacy arranged meticulously in a conference room in Hell. Later still, I stopped blogging, mostly due to time constraints, domestic and work commitments. Before I stopped blogging, I was confident enough in my own limited knowledge of the Church to offer some insights into what I thought had gone wrong in the time since 13 March 2013.
Reasons for the catastrophe I offered over the time were varied, from the election of a 'mad Pope' to the election of an apostate Bishop to the Papacy, to someone who was elected Pope but who resisted the Truth and simply taught his own beliefs instead. Who hasn't thought, 'Oh, he's a Jesuit, what could anyone expect?' Did I say these things explicitly? Some yes, others I expect not, because with this situat…
Reasons for the catastrophe I offered over the time were varied, from the election of a 'mad Pope' to the election of an apostate Bishop to the Papacy, to someone who was elected Pope but who resisted the Truth and simply taught his own beliefs instead. Who hasn't thought, 'Oh, he's a Jesuit, what could anyone expect?' Did I say these things explicitly? Some yes, others I expect not, because with this situat…
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Interesting how most churches, as buildings, used to point upwards. Modern churches usually point sideways.
Rather telling?
So to prevent our Worship of God becoming "naf" we have used languages that are not commonly used; A special form of Latin adapted to the worship of God, Greek, etc.
Now of course we can flatter our own pride by saying God can understand all languages, and then choose a language we like perhaps Klingon or Sindarin, or even an outdated form of English forever stuck with the mindset of the 1960's.
I know that the Catholic Church is the One True Church, founded by Christ and guided by the Holy Ghost. In the Western Church we have mainly worshipped in Latin for over 1500 years.
For the last 40 or so years, some people have thought they are better than all those past Catholics... and as we have seen all it has done is empty our churches. "By their fruits we will know them"
Ironically it's only in Latin on the Vatican website!
http://www.adoremus.org/VeterumSapientia.html
You are quite right Jason; we shouldn't do Latin out of pride or the silly notion that God understands Latin better. We should do it out of obedience-using the language which was honoured and called for in numerous Councils of the Church.
humility-in trusting that all traditions of the Church have a significance of which we may not be aware of now but has been deeply tested and survived through the centuries.
and love- through which the 2 reasons above come naturally.
And the partakers of the folkmassmovement are now all golden oldies who think:
* it's OK to have a chat before, often during, and after Mass,
* put the priest "in his place" i.e. answerable to them,
* have "communion services" during the week because the priest isn't there,
* are quite comfortable with the fact that their children and grandchildren are "good people but they don't practise the faith"
Do I have to continue for you to get the picture?